Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 09:00:06 +0100 From: "John Richards" <john@zyqad.co.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <9508110800.AA02408@zyqad.co.uk>
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Hello all, I'm going to upgrade my home machine, 486DX33 VLB 8MB, 250&210 MB IDE, from 1.0.5.1R to the 2.0.5R. At the same time I'd like to start migrating the system to SCSI. This may involve buying a CDROM drive and maybe a SCSI disk. 1. Is it possible to have a mixed IDE & SCSI system? 2. Any recommendations on SCSI adapter? Buslogic looking favourite at the moment on price #155. 3. Will any SCSI CDROM drive work with any SCSI adapter or are certain combinations better/worse than others? 4. Will any SCSI disk drive work with any SCSI adapter? 5. For 1GB disk would 2*500MB disks be preferable to 1*1GB? Could then configure 2 swap partitions. 6. In a mixed IDE/SCSI system (assumes answer to 1 is yes) can the boot manager handle booting from the SCSI drive if one of the IDEs is the default boot? For 3 & 4 common sense says they should, experience hints otherwise. I'll be using the system for lisp programming on the whole although... must learn C++ sometime. I'll upgrade the processor at a later date and put in more memory then. Thanks for any help & advice. John ******************************************************************************** John Richards * email : john@zyqad.co.uk Zyqad Ltd, * Suite 25, GPT Business Park, * Technology Drive, Beeston * tel : 44 (0)115 922 0820 NOTTINGHAM. NG9 2ND. * fax : 44 (0)115 967 8374 ********************************************************************************
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